Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Tonga and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pylon,
Tom Boy,
Scratch Acid,
Monks,
Susan Cadogan,
Model 500,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Crash Course in Science,
Dorothy Ashby,
Index,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rapeman,
Crime,
Reuben Wilson,
Rufus Thomas,
K-Klass,
Spoonie Gee,
The Vogues,
Danielle Patucci,
The Barracudas,
Black Moon,
Accadde A,
MC5,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Angels of Light,
Scan 7,
Eli Mardock,
June Days,
Ornette Coleman,
Judy Mowatt,
Average White Band,
Joe Smooth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
China Crisis,
The Cowsills,
The Blues Magoos,
Aloha Tigers,
Underground Resistance,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-101,
Black Sheep,
Subhumans,
Pantytec,
The Cure,
Yusef Lateef,
the Germs,
Country Teasers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Matthew Halsall,
Camouflage,
The Gories,
The Stooges,
Marshall Jefferson,
Warsaw,
Popol Vuh,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gun Club,
Beasts of Bourbon,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.